Santa Claus on Man‑o‑War Christmas Traditions Aboard
A lively Christmas aboard a U S Navy man‑o‑war features Santy the Santa Claus figure as fleet commander. The ship’s crew parade saluting batteries, exchange gifts, and enjoy a grand “big feed” with pies, turkey and plum duff. The captain may have his books whitewashed for punishment and sailors share humorous tales of past Christmases ashore.
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Santa Claus
Santy
Bess
Paul Jones
Peraqu
Attack on Dorothy Harber shocks Fort Wayne area
In Fort Wayne Allen county officers seek two middle aged men after they attacked and bound Dorothy Harber at her home eight miles south of the city. They opened gas jets and stole about 45 dollars in cash and jewelry while forcing her to reveal hiding places. A tax collector ruse aided entry as the crime left her nearly asphyxiated. In Logansport Minnie Miller collapsed at work after swallowing poison from a mislabeled bottle. a male employee handed her a peppermint bottle, leading to poisoning. A doctor said she will recover.
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Fort. Wayne
Allen County
Dorothy Harber
Fort Wayne
Miss Harker
Hiself
Met
Logansport
Minnie Miller
Jook
Tonk
Judge Rules Prisoner May Not Delegate Time
Wabash county circuit court Judge Dee J A H Plummer ruled that a prisoner sentenced to jail cannot have another serve his time. The decision followed Addison VanDyne asking to serve the remaining 120 days of John Burnett’s 180 day sentence for forgery while Burnett served a 30 day term for intoxication. The petition was denied as illegal.
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Wabiteh
Dee
A. H. Plummer
Wabash County
Clieuit Court
Addison VanDyne
John Burnett
Plummer
Man Attempts Robbery. Cleric Subdues Thief in a Hooded Sneak
Lawrenceburg reports a would be robber named Harry J. Lampke, forty six, cigar maker with no home, tried to hold up the Hanlin Methodist church pastor Rev Charles D. Wilson. The minister struck him and the man fell, then escaped after reviving. Police placed him under arrest. In Jeffersonville Thomas Admire, a painter, suffered a fractured rib following a sneeze after being questioned by a doctor. A fire drill at South Wayne school in Fr Wayne showed orderly evacuation within six minutes with no injuries.
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Lawrenceburg
Harry J. Lampke
Chas. D. Wilson
Hanlin Methodist Episcopal Church
Lamake
Griffith
Wayne
South Wayne
Girl Suffers a Relapse After Brother’s Arm Loss
Dec. 19 report from Gary says Ethel Smith suffered a relapse upon learning her brother Ray, age twenty one, lost an arm in a hunting accident near La Porte. Rushville notes first shipment of feet to pass through the Panama Canal via F. H. Windate Manufacturing Company, routed through New York City.
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Gary
Ethel Smith
Ray
Tenty-One
Laporte
Canal
Rushville
Rush County
Panama Canal
F. H. Windate Manufactur'e¢ Company
New York City
Dean Escapes Crete Scout Vanishes From Crate
Terre Haute December 18 The Adama Expresa Company seeks Scout a long-eared hound freed from a crate he was being shipped from New Philadelphia to Cowden Illinois with the crate chairing mishap noted.
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Dean
Crete
Terre Haute
Adama, Expresa
Scout
New Philadelphia
Cowden
Lafayette Horse Seizure Reveals Cruelty Case
In Lafayette on December 17 a deputy sheriff seized a horse like animal from the Moore home area after humane authorities found extreme neglect. William H. Moore was killed in a 14 years past runaway. his widow Sarah and son Wilbur kept the animals confined in a rear barn. One horse died earlier, the other is emaciated, unshod for years, with nearly blind eyes from long confinement. Affidavits accuse Mrs Moore and her son of cruelty to animals.
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Lafayette
Main Street
William H. Moore
Sarah Moore
Wilbur Moore
Indiana News in Brief Entangles Accidents and Local Crime
Logansport report notes Verne Tucker aged sixty struck and killed by a westbound Wabash train at Seventeenth Street crossing. Other clippings cover arrests, fines, amputations, a quail-hunting mishap injuring Samuel Huffman, Mullin's burglary sentences, trial postponements, chemical exposure near death, a miner’s fatal fall, city redistricting in Gary, missing husband cases, limited jury trials in Jeffersonville, pastor election in Greenfield, a mule and buggy accident near Connersville, and rescues from a river embankment.
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Logansport
Verne Tucker
Wis
Seventeenth Street
Deene—Ioin Neville
Pittsboro
Brazil
Harvey Sweet
Patoka
Samuel Huffman
Patuka
Cook
Floyd Mullin
State Reformatory
Mullin
Gary Hf. B. Tuthilo
Michigan City
James A. Patterson
FH. M. Greenlee
Gary
Rushville
Elizabeth Bennet
Ed Beer
Cottage Hotel
Odurtal
Board of Works
I 1
Johnson
Anderson
Minnie McCanduss
Martin McCandliss
McCandliss
Big
Chares W. Brickley
McConditas
Jeffersonville
Clark Circuit Court
Edward Morton
Indiana Reformatory
Greenfield
M. S. Decker
The
Christian Church
Connersville
Jesse Abernathy
Whittenstar River
Nulftown Bride
Connersyup
Abernsthy
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der Prosit
United States
der Profit
Old Pete
Darien
Mindy
Maude
Lue Qi Bohrd
Isis D
Indiana News
Thomas Admire
Admire
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